ics65 at
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Does anyone know of any list, group or museum for vintage (1970s) professional
Audio/Video equipment enthusiasts? Of course vintage computers were a part of some of this
A/V equipment, especially for control systems.
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A couple of years ago a 70's era Sony U-Matic VCR was dropped off at the radio
museum here.
(U-Matic's were a big clunky video-cassette that predated the VHS and Betamax
formats.)
Making this on topic is that the sole cassette (jammed in the player) that came
with it had a label with a DEC logo on it and a title something like: "... VAX
...: Meeting the Productivity Challenge..." and a date circa 1981.
I was intending to connect it up to a TV of course and see if it would run, but
somebody threw it all in the dumpster before I got to it.0
So aside from throwing out the radio museum's only example of that early VCR
technology, the cassette went with it.
Who knows what was on the cassette, it might have been a bunch of pencil
sharpeners pointing to production-forecast graphs or it might have been video
of rows of 780's rolling off the production line.